data engineer sr- ST

The Senior Data Engineer role at Starbucks is based onsite in Nashville, focusing on delivering enterprise data services and pipelines to enable analytics and real-time decision making. The position offers an annual salary range of USD 111,000 to 209,500 and requires at least two years of software development experience along with a Bachelor’s degree.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise data services that empower analytics and informed decision making.
• Design, implement, test, and support data pipelines enabling continuous data processing for data exploration, preparation, and real-time business insights, aligned with Starbucks guiding principles.
• Build and maintain highly available data pipelines across batch, distributed, and real-time processing to scale analytics capabilities.
• Translate strategic needs into practical solutions by collaborating with cross-functional teams to define requirements, enforce data governance and retention practices, and improve standards and reliability.
• Advance operational excellence through automation, monitoring, documentation, performance analysis, and root-cause resolution, partnering with peer support groups and vendors as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field
• At least 2 years of professional software development experience

Technologies

• SQL platforms and NoSQL platforms
• Spark
• Hadoop ecosystem (Hadoop, YARN, MapReduce, Pig, Hive)
• Azure and AWS
• Java, Scala, C#
• Shell scripting
• Tableau

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; basic and supplemental life insurance
• Voluntary insurance options
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Family expansion reimbursement
• Paid vacation from date of hire
• Sick time accrual
• Eight paid holidays
• Two personal days per year
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Starbucks equity program (Bean Stock)
• S.I.P. stock program (discounted company stock)
• Incentivized emergency savings and financial well-being tools
• 100 percent tuition coverage for a first-time bachelor’s degree through the Starbucks College Achievement Plan with Arizona State University
• Student loan management resources
• Access to additional educational opportunities
• Backup care
• DACA reimbursement

Preferred Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience with SQL platforms
• Two or more years with NoSQL platforms or strong exposure
• Five or more years working with Spark and or Hadoop ecosystem (Hadoop, YARN, MapReduce, Pig, Hive)
• One or more years implementing data platforms on Azure or AWS (advanced scope may align to two years)
• One or more years of experience with CI/CD tools and practices (advanced scope may align to two years)
• Two or more years exposure to SOA architecture and service integration patterns
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, or C#, with strong debugging and performance tuning abilities
• Proficiency in shell scripting, logging and monitoring practices, and enterprise deployment best practices
• Experience operationalizing big data implementations (multiple implementations preferred)
• Familiarity with Tableau or similar BI tools is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to mentor others and work effectively in Agile/DevOps environments